Contemporary Studies on Sport Management
Year:2016 | Volume:5 | Issue:10 |Papers Count:8

The aim of this research was to understand the relationship between the type of sport and athletes’ and non athletes’ recreation. The type of sport in this research includes Individual contact, Individual non-contact, Group contact and group non-contact sports. The types of leisure activities included serious leisure, specialized play, and edgework and fantasy activities.Subjects were 286 athletes and 315 none-athletes. A 25-item questionnaire distributed between subjects. Its validity had been approved by sport management and leisure experts. The reliability of questionnaire has been calculated 82% by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient test. Kolmogorov - Smirnov and Mann-Whitney U tests, Eta correlation coefficient in significant level p≤0.05 have been used. The results showed a significant relationship between the kind of sport and serious leisure. With analyzing the means of four groups, it was cleared that athletes in Individual non-contact, individual contact, Group contact and group non-contact were engaged in serious leisure respectively. Although no significant relationship was seen between the types of sport, specialized play, edge work and fantasy activities. The research results also showed that there is a significant difference between specialized play, edgework and fantasy activities in Guilan athletes and none- athletes, and in all occasions, athletes used these activities more than none- athletes. Also, no significant relationship was seen in athletes and none- athlete’s serious leisure.

The purpose of this research, was determine relationship between sports media usage and social capital in students of university of Tehran. The methodology of research was descriptive – correlation. The population of study consists of all students in university of Tehran (about 32000 students). Sampling method was classed which was selected randomly.Sample volume based on Morgan was 384 students. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire that was based on the integration of social capital Putnam and questionnaire of media impact. To ensure the validity of the questionnaire the initial questionnaire gave to 10 Experts and to confirm the reliability of the questionnaire used Cronbach's alpha (a=0.87). The analysis of data was done by K-S test, Spearman correlation tests.The results showed that: Students sports media usage with social network rate (p=0.001, r=0.780), with rate of social trust (p=0.001, r=0.806) and with reciprocation (p=0.001, r=0.763) has significant relationship that it was a direct and positive relationship. Also regarding the students use of sports media and social capital there was significant relationship (p=0.001, r=0.812).

The purpose of this study was to investigate the causal relationships of job burnout with job characteristics, psychology and structural empowerment. The population consisted of employees working for sport organization in west Azarbayejan province (N=320). In this study, all of employees were used for modeling. Questionnaires Job burnout of Maslash, job characteristics of Morgeson and Humphrey, psychology empowerment of Spreitez and structural empowerment of Kanter were used to measure the intended variables. Path analysis through AMOS-16 software, were used to investigate the fitness of the proposed model. First, on the basis of review of literature, a proposed model presented and the fitness of the model using structural equation model were investigated. Based on the findings, it was indicated that in female employees, the direct coefficient paths between job characteristics and structural empowerment, job characteristics and psychology empowerment, and psychology empowerment and burnout frequency, reported to be significant (r= 0.52, r=0.45, r=0.28, p<.05). The results for men employments indicated that the direct coefficient paths between job characteristics and structural empowerment, job characteristics and psychology empowerment, and burnout frequency and burnout intensive, reported to be significant (0.57, 0.42, 0.30, p<.05). The findings reported that the remaining direct and indirect paths were not significant. Therefore, based on the findings, it can be concluded that to rely more on the direct rather than indirect effects between the variables to reduce frequency and intensive burnout employees feel in workplace.

The aim of this study was to assess decision-making styles of consumers when purohasing products mannfacturer based on Asprvlz and Kendall' s.The present study that a survey with a cross-sectional study, and conducted in the field, statistical population of this study was consisted of men and women over than 15 years old in the sports stores in Shiraz so the sample size was calculated to estimate the sample size formula based, (sample size 385). A questionnaire entitled consumer style inventory (CSI), which was made by Sproles and Kenddall (1986). And in this research was used Descriptive and inferential statistical statistical methods ((Binomial test and Friedman test). Study indicate that customers in the styles of decision-making Known brands in sensitivit, Talib Lztgra shopping as a hobby and price sensitivity they follow Sproles and Kenddall High sensitivity, loyal to a rand response the careless, wandering in a lot of choices and model do not follow Sproles and Kenddall. (p<0.01).In fact, consumers are looking for new products in stores and sporting goods are luxury and Shopping is fun for them. The value for their money and expect in return for the money it pays to buy the best quality products.

The aim of this study is providing an organizational entrepreneurship pattern in the Ministry of sports and youth of Islamic Republic of Iran. The main innovative system components are human resources system, financial system, bonuses and payments, payroll, performance evaluation, research and development and information system which they are as institutional variables.The statistical population 430 people consist of all experts and managers of the Ministry of youth and sports and the number of statistical sample is 203 people. To assess innovative system components and organizational entrepreneurship was used Hagh Shenas (based on a sample contain 30 persons) questionnaire with 0.87 reliability and 0.76 validity. For the analysis of data were used Statistical methods include sample t-test and path analysis.Finally the LISREL software was used to design model. The results of the research showed the level of innovative system and organizational entrepreneurship (2.75) is less than average (3). As well as a positive and statistically significant relationship (P=0.001) was observed between each of the innovative system components within the organizational entrepreneurship.Also the proposed model had (optimal) goodness of fitting. The result of the research indicates that the Ministry of sport and youth lack the entrepreneurial system.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between work ethic, job commitment and job performance among employees of the offices of sport and youth in Khorasan Razavi province. The research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of the study consisted of all employees of the offices of sport and youth in Khorasan Razavi province in which 177 people were selected as the statistical sample based on Krejcie and Morgan (1970) sample size determination table. Data collection instrument includes, demographic characteristics questionnaire, work ethic questionnaire (Meriac and et al, 2013), job commitment questionnaire (Meyer and Allen, 1994) and performance self-assessment questionnaire (Abramis, 1994). The Face and content validity of questionnaires was confirmed by professors of sport management and their reliability determined by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.88, 0.74 and 0.92 respectively. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to examine relationship between variables. The findings showed that, work ethic had positive and direct effect on employees’ job performance (b=0.37, p=0.001). In addition. Work ethic had positive and direct effect on employees’ job commitment (b =0.49, p=0.001). Attention to the work ethic and job commitment in various aspects of knowledge programs and organizational learning to increase performance and active participation of employees in the organizational affairs and personal responsibility is necessity.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges of implementing Clause 88 (privatization of sport facilities) in city sports. The participants of this study were 76 sport experts working in youth sport organizations in Ardabil province, Iran, and the heads of the sport departments. The present research was an applied one and in terms of data collection, descriptive-analytical method conducted in the field type. The instrument which had been used for measuring data was researcher- made questionaries distributed in a cross-sectional way among statistical population in 2014. Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis; and factor analysis was used to determine the importance of each factor. The results of the study indicated that administrative challenges of the clause 88 in city sports are managing, sociocultural and legal barriers, respectively. Each of these factors were divided into sub-categories and by using factor-analysis process, priority of each of them was determined.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between and Perceptions of organizational justice and Job Involvement in the Staff of Sport and Youth Ministry. this search was descriptive correlational and was conducted as field. this search was descriptive correlational and was conducted as field.244 out of 255 questionnaires that were distributed among experts of Ministry of sport and youth were considered as the sample of the research. to collective data, Organizational justice questionnaire (Niehoff and Moorman, 1992) and job involvement questionnaire (Salanova, 2002) were used.Their validity was estimated by specialists and experts and their reliability by cronbach’s alpha coefficient respectively as a=0.81 and a=0.83. The data were analyzed by pearson correlation coefficient, regression analysis and Structural equation modeling. the result indicates a significant relationship between Organizational justice and job involvement was variance. Also, regression results show that the Interactional justice and distributive justice could explain a part of variable variance. Structural equation modeling confirmed the relationship between organizational justice dimensions of job involvement.